![]() ![]() Include all network adapter MAC addresses : keeps the MAC addresses of all network adapters of your virtual machine for the destination one.MAC Address Policy : choose whether MAC addresses should be preserved or not depending on the chosen policy.Path : specify where the new virtual machine will be stored.Name : specify the name of the new virtual machine.It's therefore strongly recommended to check this box if you want to use these 2 virtual machines (the original one its copy) simultaneously. Note : the MAC address is a physical address that is supposed to be unique for each network card. Specify a name for the new virtual machine and check the box if you want to reset the MAC address of the different network adapters used by this virtual machine. To do this, select your virtual machine and right click "Clone" on it. To begin, we will create a complete copy of a virtual machine. cat /dev/sdg | VBoxManage convertfromraw stdin OutPutFile.When you install an operating system in a virtual machine or in other cases, it may be interesting to make a copy of a virtual machine.įor this, VirtualBox offers 2 types of cloning : full and linked.Install MergeIDE on the windows machine first.If you didn't try his solution, or if option 1 did not like the rawdisk read and failed, Virtualbox has a really good article, on converting a real windows install to virtualbox, using linux. From there you can convert it to virtualbox format if you want, or just use player. vmware-converter will read it, convert it to a virtual machine, fix the drivers, and install it in vmware player. If you tried tapped-out's solution, point vmware-converter at at that virtualbox vm you created there. It will also do something to all the drivers so that your machine will work virtually. VMware standalone will let you convert a virtual machine, running physical machine, or an acronis true image backup to a virtual machine. Make sure you have vmware player (free) installed also. Use the vmware standalone converter tool: If tapped-out's solution doesn't work, go ahead and try this. but it will probably just BSOD immediately. Hopefully your windows install doesn't get corrupted when it tries to load all new drivers, etc. (experience and source) Tapped-out's solution seems easier, but I don't think you will boot successfully. ~ Change the last character # do the disk drive number recorded in step 1.īut normally you can't just all of a sudden virtualize a physical windows computer into a virtual one by just reading the hard drive from Virtualbox. It's simply telling VBoxManage where to put the created. You can also change the entire path of that file to something else. ~ Replace "CUSTOMNAMEOFVHD" to whatever you would like. I don't know what the default directory path for VirtualBox is in Linux distros but simply find it and cd to it.ģ: Run the following VirtualBox command: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "%USERPROFILE%"\.VirtualBox\CUSTOMNAMEOFVHD.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive# Linux alternative for figuring this out would be running one of the following utilities > fdisk, lsblk, gpartedĢ: Open a CommandPromptTerminal with Admin/Sudo privileges > type cd %programfiles%\oracle\virtualbox. Make note of the disk number of the drive you're trying to virtualize. Same process just supplement the OS commands accordingly Part of this example is for doing it in Windows because I don't know the Linux directory structure and path variables by heart but the VirtualBox command will be the same, regardless of Host OS. I don't know if this is a deal breaker for you but here's the goods. you would have to normally boot to the drive, make desired changes, then boot from the VirtualBox. If you wanted to add programs, updates, etc. Meaning, you can run any programs or files that are on it but once in the Virtual Machine, settings/program changes can't be made on the physical drive. However, a downfall to the following suggestion would be that it boots virtually. You essentially "fake" boot directly to the drive so the created virtual drive isn't very big in size and it doesn't get any bigger. ![]() vmdk) that will boot to a designated drive/partition. The following process will create a virtual disk (. There's actually a really easy solution to achieve this.
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